Re: IIe bootup question -I'm a newbie.

[Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>]

Short of getting a startup disk, you can start your Apple by pressing
Control/reset every time you power up, or you can pull out the disk controller
card from it's slot inside the computer. However, these two methods are rather
limited as they make the system unable to use disks, so it would be preferable
to get either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS 8 startup disks.

leucoplast wrote:

> Hi, folks. I recently purchased a IIe for a friend of mine, and I would like
> to test it out before I give it to him for Christmas. When I turn the system
> on, the only thing that appears on the screen is the Apple II logo. Do I
> need to have a traditional boot disk in the floppy drive, or is there some
> way to get the computer to move past this logo?
>
> I have never worked with an Apple II so I'm not sure of what is supposed to
> happen. From what I've read, it seems that the Apple II's had some sort of
> simple OS burned into the ROM, so that you didn't need to have a bootdisk to
> boot the system up -sort of like the old Tandy 1000ex's. Is this correct?
>
> Also, is there anyone out there who could e-mail me a bootdisk image, that I
> could load onto a floppy for this system?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ernest.



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